New Delhi: Nearly 60 days after a 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped at knifepoint by three men inside southeast Delhi’s Aastha Kunj Park, Delhi Police filed a chargesheet Friday, detailing how the teenager was assaulted on her birthday.Sources said that the 400-plus-page chargesheet was filed at Saket Court and has listed over 55 witnesses, including the minor and her friend. Police have charged Asif, Hemant and Mukesh under sections 70(2) (gang rape), 61(2) (criminal conspiracy), 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 351(3) (criminal intimidation) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Section 6/17 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.Police have detailed the evidence collected during the investigation, including the mobile phone location data of the three accused, call records, CCTV footage in which the accused were seen roaming in the area and other crucial evidence such as biological samples recovered from the crime scene.Cops have also mentioned the minor’s statement in the chargesheet. “Today (Sept 22) was my birthday… I told my friend to take me to Kalkaji Temple. We reached Kalkaji around 5.45pm. We had darshan till around 7pm,” she said in the FIR.The girl said she and her friend then bought chips and a bottle of water from outside Kalkaji metro station and entered the park through gate no. 7. She suggested that they sit in the park for some time and later go for darshan at Iskcon.“As soon as we… sat on a bench near the swings and opened the packet of chips, three men, aged 30-35 years, came from behind… They caught hold of my friend and slapped him.” They said they were policemen and “that coming there was not allowed”, she added.The men allegedly took her friend to the other side and took away both their phones. Two of them allegedly asked her to go near a bush. “I was very scared. I told them, ‘Sir, ask whatever you want to ask here. Speak to my mother.’ At that time, one of the boys said, ‘Asif bhai, take out the gun,’” she said.According to her statement, Asif was wearing a purple shirt and was the most heavily built of the three. He allegedly took out a black gun and showed it to her before putting it back.They allegedly took out knives and led her towards a dark area. Asif told the other accused, Hemu, to keep watch and raped her. According to the statement, Asif allegedly raped her while holding a knife to her neck. “I was crying and was in severe pain,” she said. She alleged that after the assault, Asif called Hemu and said he would go and look for Deepu.Hemu allegedly took her to a nearby spot and assaulted her while holding a knife to her neck. The third accused, whom the other two called Deepu, then came and allegedly assaulted her while also holding a knife to her neck.
